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In a message dated 8/17/2001 3:36:43 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> . What you're saying is just such a shocking indictment
> of the guy that I really have to ask a few questions to see if what you're
> saying is really likely to be true. Can't you remember who or what you were
> reading that led you to this particular conclusion? I'd like to go and
> read
> the material myself, which I can't do if you don't tell me what it was.
>
>
It's really not that shocking, not if you have studied the "man" at all.
I've read too numerous to name articles about Wallace Stevens. Peter
Brazeau's book, Parts of a World: Wallace Stevens Remembered, is probably the
best portrait to date of Stevens as a man. Brazeau delves into Stevens'
coldness and his attitude towards other contemporary American writers.
Understand though, that Brazeau's work is hardly the ultimate biography. I
don't think anyone is able to write a true biography of Stevens, as so much
of his life remains clouded in mystery; and, as the years since his death
continue to pass by without much progress being made in infiltrating his
double life, the chances of it happening at all by anyone are, I believe,
becoming extremely slim.
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<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 8/17/2001 3:36:43 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
<BR>[log in to unmask] writes:
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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">. What you're saying is just such a shocking indictment
<BR>of the guy that I really have to ask a few questions to see if what you're
<BR>saying is really likely to be true. Can't you remember who or what you were
<BR>reading that led you to this particular conclusion? I'd like to go and
<BR>read
<BR>the material myself, which I can't do if you don't tell me what it was.
<BR>
<BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BR>It's really not that shocking, not if you have studied the "man" at all.
<BR>I've read too numerous to name articles about Wallace Stevens. Peter
<BR>Brazeau's book, <U>Parts of a World: Wallace Stevens Remembered, </U>is probably the
<BR>best portrait to date of Stevens as a man. Brazeau delves into Stevens'
<BR>coldness and his attitude towards other contemporary American writers.
<BR>Understand though, that Brazeau's work is hardly the ultimate biography. I
<BR>don't think anyone is able to write a true biography of Stevens, as so much
<BR>of his life remains clouded in mystery; and, as the years since his death
<BR>continue to pass by without much progress being made in infiltrating his
<BR>double life, the chances of it happening at all by anyone are, I believe,
<BR>becoming extremely slim.</FONT></HTML>
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